Live Chat — How you can affect California’s budget.

Nearly 300 readers joined today’s live chat with Bob Hertzberg about California’s future and nearly a third posted questions. This is the last of the series of four live chats the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.com hosted about the state’s budget and what that means for California’s future.

About 2,000 readers participated in the four chats.

I’ll post some thoughts about what we learned, and repeating themes that emerged from the discussions, in coming days.

To read the transcript of today’s chat, click below. To read the transcripts of the earlier chats, search under Live Chat in the blog categories.